The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

Is There Anything As Fast As Someone On LinkedIn Declaring Their Expertise On Their Ability To Monetise, Explain And Define An Emerging Technology Despite Them Never Having Worked In Tech Or Done Something That Defined Any Tech? ( Filed under: A Bit Of Inspiration, Advertising, Agency Culture, Attitude & Aptitude, Brand, Brand Suicide, Comment, Communication Strategy, Confidence, Consultants, Corporate Evil, Creative Development, Creativity, Culture, Cunning, Devious Strategy, Effectiveness, Fake Attitude, Grifting, Marketing, Marketing Fail, Planners, Planners Making A Complete Tit Of Themselves And Bless, Planning, Relevance, Scam, Strategy )

I’m all for people expressing their opinion. I’m all for people being excited about things they see as having great possibilities. I’m all for people trying to find new ways to evolve, grow and make money. But come on … It’s getting to the point where Linkedin should be renamed Disneyland given how much fiction […]

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Why We Need To Remember You Can Be Relevant As Hell And Still Be Boring As Fuck … ( Filed under: A Bit Of Inspiration, Advertising, Agency Culture, Attitude & Aptitude, Brand, Brand Suicide, Comment, Context, Creative Development, Creativity, Culture, Cunning, Devious Strategy, Effectiveness, Marketing, Marketing Fail, Martin Weigel, Mischief, Relevance, Resonance )

In April, I have been asked to speak at a conference in Croatia. Croatia! What a country … I cannot bloody wait. I know … I know … I can hear you all from here, screaming ‘another holiday freebie’. And while I accept this is a terrible misjudgement on their part, does the fact I […]

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Still Proud, But Devastated … ( Filed under: Football, Nottingham, Nottingham Forest )

I was trawling my drafts blog file and found a post I had written a few months ago. Specifically when Forest were playing their match against Sheffield United at the City Ground to get to the Premiership Playoff Final. Obviously I wasn’t feeling too optimistic given how the second half was going. Though to be […]

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Twitter Twaddle … ( Filed under: A Bit Of Inspiration, Advertising, Apathy, Attitude & Aptitude, Brand Suicide, Business, Confidence, Context, Culture, Fake Attitude, Marketing, Membership, Planners Making A Complete Tit Of Themselves And Bless, Pretentious Rubbish, Revenge, Twitter )

Over the last 12 months, one of the things I’ve had an almost adverse reaction to is twitter. I can see Andy reading this – and I expect an email from him reinforcing this – and shouting: “Now you know why I always called it twatter” And he may … just may … be right. […]

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Creative Colonisation … ( Filed under: A Bit Of Inspiration, Advertising, Agency Culture, Attitude & Aptitude, Authenticity, Awards, China, Creativity, Culture, Equality )

This is an open letter to Little Black Book, Campaign Brief, Adweek, Cannes, Warc … basically every industry publication or award show around the world. Please … Pretty please … … can you stop awarding English speaking agencies – especially those only with offices in English speaking nations, only producing work in English – titles […]

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